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It’s the ultimate fan boy franchise. To bag a role in Star Wars is the ultimate win for fan theory and as an actor.

Then it should please fans to know that Superstuds Zac Efron and Ryan Gosling have auditioned for the seventh Star Wars film, set to be filmed in London next year.

Gosling would look very good as a Sith lord after recent work in Only God Forgives highlighted a somber and captivating presence on screen.

Matt Damon has also been highly rumoured to join the cast, but is high speculation and rumour at this point looking unlikely.

J.J. Abrams of Star Trek and Lost will be directing the film from scriptwriter Michael Arndt.

All three original cast members Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) and Harrison Ford (Han Solo) are said to be returning. Episode VI ended as Luke and Leia discovered they are twins that were separated at birth to protect them from the empire. Billy Dee Williams who plays Captain Lando and Anthony Daniels (C3PO) are likely to reappear also. Ewan McGregor may retake the role of Obi Wan Kenobi, as a force ghost.

Seven’s story may feature Han and Leia’s teen daughter in a hearty role.

Disney bought the rights to the film from legendary creator George Lucas.

The release is planned for December 2015.

Lucas is said to have pre planned years ago to extend the franchise to episode IX.

All in all, Lucas has a grand plan spread out since his early years. He has direction and remains creative consultant, a wise move for Disney to maintain. Lucas has known how to make the franchise connect with fans and small tweaks with certain characters and a strong story with fan action and hot new actors in supporting roles will drive the movies forward favourably.

What is the job of a Politician?

The job of a politician has been widely confusing to those in the public sphere with many often asking what do they actually do. Others state they know what they should be doing and yet Politicians only have a hidden, personal agenda and not a legitimate reason to justify their personal ideologies.

It is the job of a politician to smooth over relations with world leaders despite contrasting views and come to a common goal both can achieve in negotiation or compromise for the state/country they allegedly have best interests for in order to keep it ticking over fruitfully.

It is also necessary to support the members of its country in all aspects than to vilify and fragment audiences with isolation social groups and to strengthen liberal democracies rather than have holidays, gain pay rises and gag political structures to enhance propaganda.

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Google Glasses invention prompts rivals to follow in footsteps and invade privacy further as a cheap mechanism for profit.

This is the Telephony One.

So this is the future. Evil Google’s Glasses to public spy on people, which it may feed back to NSA and others, but regardless of that, this is a complete violation of human rights and privacy for profit. Every company and country should be banning the devices, not creating them. Google also have function that allows you to record and stream on YouTube live which is simply outrageous when Google will invade your privacy live and not allow the video to be removed, despite your concerns when you may eventually see it, which will be too late after the abuse flies through.

If they launch these devices then it is my suggestion that every country in the world should ban this frugal glasses of any kind. With many perverted people choosing to use camera devices to film up women’s skirts, record someone against their will to post online and cause abusive hatred as a fun sub culture and invade sauna’s, gym’s and lockerooms to secretly record people’s private bodies is profound and unwillful.

Any country or company that allows this device should be ashamed of itself and could eventually cause a mass political disaster for the abuses attached to it globally. There is no need for Frugal Glasses in a world full of camera’s, another potential reason why so many teens commit suicide or are shamed for doing certain behaviours. This applies to the older generations too.

Bryan Cranston bags Luthor role

After the recent revelation Ben Affleck was chosen to take the keys of The Batmobile for a spin, the kyroptonite to Bruce Wayne’s power has been acknowledged.

Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston has received the role of the bald headed baddie.

An online petition scoring thousand of signatures against Affleck portraying Batman was signed in hope Snyder, infatuated with Affleck, reconsider.

We previously wrote in our shortlist of Batman choices Cranston could be one of three hot choices. Mark Strong was also tipped to secure the role and on our list too.

Cranston will certainly put a strong emphasis on the role.

Director Zack Snyder had come under scrutiny after rewarding Affleck, an unwise choice with fans hoping to buy the film, the cape of Gotham City. Snyder may have attempted to make a name for himself, but will certainly go down in history as unfavourable and clueless.

Funny enough, in 2001, Ben took to an interview to say “I am not Batman.” The production team are the same studios that produced the Green Lantern. They cast sweet-looking Ryan Reynolds, a then Hollywood luvvie, into the role. The film was a massive flop soon after.

With recent issues on sexual identity and problems stemming from it now ,in the past and certainly the future, why is sex such a taboo subject for society?

Perhaps it is because newspapers like the Daily Mail and other Conservative politicians have stigmatised the ‘idea’ or ‘image’ of sex to be only a reason for procreation. Many of them feel we are only here on this Earth to procreate, and class sex as a boring, missionary act to spawn a child.

Anyone not engaging in ‘traditional values’ is then vilified and classed as dirty, shameful or disgusting for unlocking their sexual identity and giving into their natural desires.

The more people attempt to block it, the more people will end up doing it and when they do they will do it in the wrong choices through lack of information or communication in an open forum.

With no one knowing how to tackle sex and teaching it minimally in schools with a conservative approach causes ripples for a one way standard which doesn’t represent reality causing others to head out into the big wide world and make choices that could be unhealthily with sexual infections, or giving away precious sex, such as virginity to anyone they see or like for two minutes as a charmer.

Preparing people for sex is key and if they vilification of people having sex from those who are not engaging and out of touch with reality was more efficiently presented, then many would have responsible sex and there would be less ‘dirty’ tags surrounding it meaning less abuse, shame and “slut-shaming” when sex happens. Sex is a precious and tender time which should, and is usually respected between two consenting parties. It should not be classed as dirty in anyway when it is a natural order. Adopting this stance would “protect the children” more from suicide, bullying and low self esteem.

With the recent democratic free speech laws up in the air in Great Britain, politicians and security agents are now working together to defame journalism.

The case of David Miranda, partner of the journalist Glenn Greenwald, who revealed the Edward Snowden leaks in The Guardian newspaper, was detained under section 7 of the terrorism act as he was boarding a flight to his home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

‘Terrorist’ David Miranda

British government and the Home Office were said to have given the green light to arrest Mr. Miranda knowing full well he was not a terrorist. His crime? He had hold of some Snowden documents.

Great Britain, which is now using the only American excuse of “national security” to apprehend someone gave a “heads up” to NSA while David Cameron, who claimed we live in a Democracy, and Home Secretary Theresa May had no involvement they claim, but later revealed they were informed. Cameron, on his third holiday in recent months in Cornwall, gave the order, allegedly. Two GCHQ officials watched as media files where destroyed by the Guardian under an order from government and police.

Cameron was said to be –

David Cameron ‘kept abreast’ of detention of David Miranda, sources say

Theresa May briefed because police feared he carried ‘stolen information’

Brazilian was taken into custody by officials as he passed through Heathrow

U.S. President Barack Obama was also given ‘heads-up’ before he was taken

Scotland Yard said detention was ‘legally and procedurally sound’

The 28-year-old was held while on way home to Rio de Janeiro from Berlin

So what does this do for the sector of Journalism?

The statement from arresting officials of Miranda, a freelance journalist, claimed he was doing journalistic work but not a journalist in order to defame him to send a message of fear to all journalists in line with the government.

Miranda was held for 9 hours under the Terrorism Act. Lord Falconer, former British lord chancellor who helped bring in the Terrorism Act 2000 has added “this was not what the law was intended for.”

Home Secretary Theresa May

Every newspaper has a political agenda. All newspapers in Great Britain, except for the Guardian (Liberal) and the Daily Mirror (Labour) support the Conservative Party and carefully framework propaganda in their favour to win general elections.

David Cameron, Conservative, cannot control those two papers and therefore used regulation or law to clamp down and pressurise the reporting. Now, Cameron, who is trying to mimic Barack Obama, who is the most popular person in the world, hopes crawling to American agencies will help strengthen their bond.

Britain is said to spy on American citizens and America spies on Britain and both feed the information back to one another as they cannot spy on each other.

Under Pressure.

NSA is also said to be working with data collection from Google and Apple.

By using spying methods and fear to collect information has a damning effect on the business of journalism and classing someone as not a journalist because they are not at a working title is shameful. Defaming journo’s based on political ideology and agenda’s to win elections is just as corrupt as Robert Mugabe, the recent Egyptian uprising and the claims of Vladimir Putin fixing elections.

Without journalists to report on the real issues and secrets to allow politicians to craft laws to slam them down and hide their corruption is nowhere near a democracy and ever closer to a Fascist state. After the Snowden files were destroy by police, The Guardian newspaper was dictated not to report anymore stories that could “endanger lives under national security.” This should also tell us something sinister. Just how damning and intrusive was the spying carried out by NSA on worldwide nations.

Sun kissed Cameron

Currently, in a totalitarian state, filled with surveillance and political scandal, journalists are needed more than ever. The defaming of someone not at a working title is disgusting seeing as the politicians and industry make it very difficult to hire someone in the field because they need personal lapdogs to win elections with favourable stories and abuse of the opposition, which also cripples the notion of journalism.

Politicians should be working in unison with journalists allowing them to report stories as is their job and will move the economy forward. Instead the image presented is a personal hitman in disguise, especially after police corruption was exposed, including stealing identities of dead children.

The Gestapo, Hitler’s personal army invaded ordinary citizens homes and premises in secret, at night to abuse, remove and contain secrets nearing the Second World War.

According to historian Rupert Butler, “From its creation in 1933 until its death in May 1945, anyone living in Nazi controlled territory lived in fear of a visit from the Gestapo…” (Source: WIkipedia)